Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature. by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L. F. Nilsen. Historically, surnames in England and Europe told stories about their owners because they were based on: . ATTRIBUTES, e.g. Black, Brown, Longfellow, Powers, Short, Truman, White

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Rosemary Morning Dove named him ___ which is unpronounceable in Indian and English but it means: “He Who Crawls Silently Through the Grass with a Small Bow and One Bad Arrow Hunting for Enough Deer to Feed the Whole Tribe.”

An especially sad story is entitled, “Geraldo No Last Name.” He was a boy killed in a hit-and-run accident. Cisneros wrote: “His name was Geraldo. And his home is in another country. The ones he left behind are far away, will wonder, shrug, remember. Geraldo—he went north…we never heard from him again.”

“Name, kid?” “This soldier’s name is Bean, sir.” “Get that for size or for brains?” Bean is an ironic name, as is Fly Molo.

Ender’s fellow students at Battle School are given aggressive (war) names like Scorpion, Spider, Flame and Tide.

Other friends and allies are Alai, Mick and Petra Arkanian (aka “baby butt” and “Petra the Poet”), and Dink Meeker.

Shen is nicknamed “Worm” by Bernard “because he’s so small, and because he wriggles. Look how he shimmies his butt when he walks.” Shen stormed off, but they only laughed louder. “Look at his butt. See ya, worm!”

The effect of all these strange names is not only to characterize the students, but also to remind readers that they are in a very different world.

It was on the New York Times best seller list for several months and in 2012, was made into a prize-winning film.

The story begins realistically in India, where Pi’s father manages the city zoo, so fortunately Pi grows up learning about training animals. Another piece of good luck is that from an early age, Pi was trained as a swimmer by his father’s best friend who had swum in the Olympics in the Piscine Molitor pool in Paris.

It was this friend who had convinced the Patels to name their son after the swimming pool, which he described as a pool that would have delighted the gods.

The book opens with the Patels moving to Canada with the most valuable zoo animals.